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Coll 29/86 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: incidence; revision; general' [228r] (455/561)
The record is made up of 1 file (279 folios). It was created in 1 Mar 1927-1 Mar 1949. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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aexceT)t a-oparenuly
Bushire, Tout this
is not cloar.
x see comment
above as to the
inaccuracy of
this finure.
H
be made gradually to replace all officers of
the Indian service at Consular posts in Persia by
officers of the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
service: that the entire
responsibility for the maintenance of the posts
should be assumed by the Foreign Office as each is
transferred to the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Consular service, and that
the Government of India should pay, in full discharge
of their liability, a yearly contribution.
The Foreign Office T s present contribution
x
is assumed to be £15,000 per annum. They are not
(or were not in 1924) prepared to pay more than that.
But they are prepared to continue to pay that, end
they calculate that when all the posts are staffed by
one
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
service the total annual cost will be
reduced to £115,000. Thus when the transfer is
complete, India’s contribution would be reduced ,
oy progressive economies as more and more posts are
transferred, to £50,000. (If Bushire also were to
•;6 oransferrea, the Foreign Office estimate that
the total annual cost might be reduced to £ 97 , 000 :
in that event India’s contribution would presumably be
scaled down lower still.)
This scheme the Foreign Office believe to
be the only way'to effect a substantial reduction of
e:,peiidi uure from Indian Bevenues without a
correspondingly substantial increase of expenditure
' ron Imperial Funds, a contingency which the then
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at any rate,
stated that he was not prepared*to contemplate.
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The file concerns the incidence of Diplomatic and Consular expenditure in Iran and in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The file includes:
- Memorandum on the contributions made from Indian and Burma revenues , 1938
- revision of the incidence of Diplomatic and Consular expenditure in Persia in 1923-24
- transfer of the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from Bushire to Bahrain: Government of India's proposals for future incidence of diplomatic and consular expenditure, 1937-40.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Viceroy, the Foreign Office, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Government of India, and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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- 1 file (279 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 280; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3662
- Title
- Coll 29/86 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: incidence; revision; general'
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- front, front-i, 2r:280v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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